By T. CHRISTIAN MILLER
Afghanistan’s opium crop this year is set to break all previous records, surging past even the highest levels cultivated during the Taliban regime, top American and international counternarcotics officials said.
At the same time, U.N. and U.S. officials are increasingly worried by signs of a nascent drug trade developing in Iraq, where smugglers are taking advantage of the continuing chaos and unguarded borders.
Instability in the wake of the U.S.-led invasions (...)
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AFGHAN OPIUM:Iraq drug trade grows
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Report Cites U.S. Profits in Sale of Iraqi Oil Under Hussein
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By JUDITH MILLER and ERIC LIPTON
Major American oil companies and a Texas oil investor were among those who received lucrative vouchers that enabled them to buy Iraqi oil under the United Nations oil-for-food program, according to a report prepared by the chief arms inspector for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The 918-page report says that four American oil companies - Chevron, Mobil, Texaco and Bay Oil - and three individuals including Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. of Houston were given (...) -
Republicans Love Red China
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Erik Fortman
Yes, I said it. The Republicans love Communist China. It was Nixon who turned public opinion in support of their terroristic, Communist regime. In modern times, the Bush Pentagon’s new “world map” indicates that China is our military ally! What the heck is going on here? I understand that Bush is better than Kerry. In this case, lesser-evilism still wreaks mucho evil.
It was a Democrat who took us to fight China’s onslaught into Vietnam, and a Republican who retreated. (...) -
The Iraq War Was Always Based On Lies
9 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Jason Leopold
Here’s what we know so far about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction: of the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country biological weapons may be hidden, about 100 of these sites have been searched over the past six weeks and not a single spec of anthrax or other WMD has been uncovered.
Two skeletal trailers that may have been used to develop anthrax or botulism, scrubbed from top to bottom when it (...) -
Uptight Christian Women get 10 mill to teach Iraqi Women How to Shop and Pray
8 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsWhat bullshit this is. Remember how the "missionaries" helped genicide the indigenous, then the white wives dressed up indigenous women and children in hideous western garb, slapped the shit out of them so they would not speak their own language and put them in bording schools which taught them to be "good xtians"...this will be the "modern" version of the christian/capitalist/demodictatorship of Iraq by the capitalist wives. Maybe Ann Coulter will go over there and get beheaded!
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Samarra, Iraq : "I saw dogs eating the body of a woman"
7 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
20 commentsWaving white flags, Iraqis have fled Samarra on river boats as US forces claimed victory over insurgents in an offensive aimed at taking control of rebel-held cities.
Iraq’s US-backed interim government is hoping American and Iraqi forces will crush a bloody insurgency and take back all of the country before the scheduled January elections.
But Sunday’s operation in Samarra, north of Baghdad, brought condemnation from residents about the cost in lives and suffering, and guerrillas in (...) -
Take them out, dude: pilots toast hit on Iraqi ’civilians’
6 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsBy Andrew Buncombe in Washington
06 October 2004
The Pentagon said yesterday it was investigating cockpit video footage that shows American pilots attacking and killing a group of apparently unarmed Iraqi civilians.
The 30-second clip shows the pilot targeting the group of people in a street in the city of Fallujah and asking his mission controllers whether he should "take them out". He is told to do so and, shortly afterwards, the footage shows a huge explosion where the people (...) -
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies
5 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
’Her grief was so intense,’ hospital worker says
A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body.
Results of an autopsy were not immediately released, but friends of Karen Unruh-Wahrer said she couldn’t stop crying over losing her 25-year-old son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed by enemy fire near Baghdad on September 25.
"Her grief was so intense — it seemed it could have harmed her, could (...) -
Sept. is 2nd-deadliest 2004 month in Iraq
5 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Robert Burns
WASHINGTON — September was the second-deadliest month of the year for U.S. forces in Iraq and brought to nearly 500 the number who have died since the insurgency escalated in late March.
The Pentagon announced Sunday evening that two soldiers died late last week of injuries suffered earlier in the month, and another was killed Sept. 30 by a roadside bomb. That brought the month’s death toll to 80, up from 65 in August and equal to the 80 who died in May.
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U.S. Faces Complex Insurgency in Iraq
5 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby JIM KRANE
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military is fighting the most complex guerrilla war in its history, with 140,000 American soldiers trained for conventional warfare flailing against a thicket of insurgent groups with competing aims and no supreme leader.
The three dozen or so guerrilla bands agree on little beyond forcing the Americans out of Iraq.
In other U.S. wars, the enemy was clear. In Vietnam, a visible leader - Ho Chi Minh - led a single army fighting to unify the (...)